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to the wonderful structures of this most extraordinary 
country ; there is certainly nothing in the whole 
world that exceeds them for magnificence of design 
and grandeur of effect. The' mighty dome and 
gallery of St. Peter’s sinks into comparative insig- 
nificance before some of those incomparable monu- 
ments of remotely ancient and comparatively modern 
art to be found in Hindostan. History indeed has 
left us some faint records of the amazing efforts of 
human ingenuity exhibited in the vast cities of Nine- 
veh and Babylon, and which appear to have been 
again realized by the imagination of Martin, who 
seems born to be the founder of a city that should 
eclipse them both. These mighty capitals of still 
more mighty empires have passed away, together 
with every memorial of them ; but there still exist 
monuments as noble, which challenge the absolute 
wonder of the traveller, among the remains of Hindoo 
architecture. No one who has traversed those fine 
districts of central Hindostan, which have excited at 
once the admiration and astonishment of foreigners, 
will readily conceive that the greatest cities of anti- 
quity ever presented sublimer monuments of art than 
are now to be seen, in all their primitive grandeur, in 
this populous and fruitful region. 
The less sacred of the temples at Tritchengur is 
not so much frequented by rigid devotees as the 
more venerated sanctuary on the hill; but it always 
presents a larger concourse of persons, a great number 
of whom resort thither for water, which is obtained 
from a deep well just within the gateway. Over 
this well there is a statue of a bull built of stone 
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